Individual errors again proved costly as Welling United crashed at Weymouth in the Vanarama National League South. After the match, Rod Stringer gave his views to Mark Doig.

“We made too many mistakes” was his initial comment before continuing “Don’t get me wrong, it looked like the rub of the green went to them in certain areas.
“I thought we started the game quite well. I thought we had good intensity. I just said to Kev (Watson) that on twenty minutes I don’t think that they’ve been in our half. Then, all of a sudden we got two nosebleeds from poor defending. We then score from a good bit of football, great cross and Alabi gets in there, scores, and we go in at two-one and it’s all positive as we just felt we’d get better but we never.”

Stringer continued “You’ve got to give credit to Weymouth because I thought they came out second half and wanted it more, put the balls in right areas one more seconds than us. Unfortunately, we then had the mistake from the goalkeeper. I did say to Dave (Winfield) if we don’t give away the free kick, that doesn’t happen but Dylan (Berry)’s cost us, which has happened quite a lot this year with goalkeepers and I just think it drained the belief out of us, and to be fair, anything they hit went in today.”
Despite their first half performance, Stringer admitted that in the second half, they were well off the standards that he expects. “We played some good football and created some good chances, the one there that Dan Martin fizzed across goal but that just summed us up really.” he said. “Just that endeavour, that workmanlike performance they produced in the second half, I didn’t think we matched it and just having that little bit of killer instinct.

“The penalty, was it a penalty? Dylan’s dropped one. Two from twenty-five/thirty yards and there’s four of your goals. I’m so disappointed for the supporters because they’ve travelled down again in numbers but as I said to the boys in there, there’s no two ways about it. you’ve let them down against a team that’s fighting for our lives like we are.”
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